Refrigerator-safe for bread



(No Model.)

H. D. STRBATOR.

REFRIGERATOR SAFE FOR BREAD, &c.

No. 351,076. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

I 21 /622 tor,

u. PETERS, PMloLRhognphur, wmi wn. n, c.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY n. STREATOR, or oALEsBU'RG, MICHIGAN.

REFRIGERATOR-SAFE FOR BREAD, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 351,076, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed December 5, 1885. Serial No. 184,781. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY D. STREATOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesburg, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, haveinrented a new and useful Refrigerator Safe for Bread, Cakes, 850., of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object certain im' provements on a refrigerators-ate patented to me December 15, 1885, No. 332,367, said improvements being hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

The figure in the drawing forming a part of this specification is a perspective view with parts broken away, showing internal arrangement.

Referring to the letters of reference marked on the drawing, B is the refrigerator-case. provided with a bottom inclosure, D, elevated above the base of the case so as to leave a space below between it and the bottom a of the watertray A. Thus when the case B is placed in the tray the bottom 1) comes above the waterline.

i is a faucet for drawing the water from the tray.

The waterbelow the bottom D forms the damp and cooling element for preserving the articles placed in the tray, and prevents them from drying. Holes rare madein the bottom D, which holes are provided with corks l) or other suitable stoppers. By this means the desired amountof dampness and cool air may be admittedinto the case, in accordance with the nature of the food or other articles contained therein.

The device is suitable for keeping cigars, tobacco, &c., from drying out.

Suitable shelves may be placed in the case B, above the floor or bottom D, eitherlike the said floor, with siniilarholes and stoppers; or the shelves may be open-work in wire or castings to allow the moisture to pass upward. These shelves are not here shown. The case may thus have a single one or a number of coin partmeuts, one above another, as desired.

The case is provided with ventilations c 0, having shutters of suitable design to open and close the ones desired, giving a greater or less degree of ventilation, as desired. The stops or shutters here shown consist of slides a a.

By means of the door F free access may be had into the case without being obliged to lift the case out of the water, as in thesafe patented December 15. 1885, above referred to.

It will be observed that the water in the tray, which is outside of the bottom of the case,prevents vermin from entering the case, the same as in my said former invention, herein referred to.

The refrigerator m ay be placed on the floor or shelf, or on a stand, P, whichever is the more convenient.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new is- The combinal ion of the water-tray, and the case having the side door,'theperl'orated fixed bottom above the lower edge of the case, and the ventilating-holes in the walls of the case, and the slides or equivalent means to close said openings, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

' HENRY D. STREATOR.

Vitnesses E, O. SOUTHARD, W. L. MORLEY. 

